True Blue SEALs - To infinity and beyond!

Honeymoon Bite on KU

I also write paranormal, but lately my paranormal ventures are like some of the grafts on my 4-way apple tree. Each variety on that tree grows well, but at different levels of vigor. We grow Gravenstein apples here in Sonoma County (Wine Country), that those trees would probably grow if you stuck the prunings into the ground. They'd sprout and take root and bear consistent fruit, just like in Mexico or the Caribbean, where people put sticks into the ground and then have bouganville vines large enough to cover their houses in one year. My Golden Delicious graft grows well. My Granny Smith apples are wonderful too. But then there's this little Rhone Red apple, and that branch grows about 3" a year. So, around this time of year, when I prune, I cut the other three way back, and just give the Rhone a kiss and clip the tip off the end, barely taking 1/2". After 8 years, I'm still waiting for my first apple, while the Gravenstein and Golden Delicious get so many the branches break.

My writing tree has three branches, and, unlike my apple, one is a runaway success and two others limp along. I have avid fans who have to wait too long for the next book. The sales of these Guardian Angels and Golden Vampires of Tuscany series are nowhere near the health of my SEAL Brotherhood franchise.

Heavenly Lover on KU

I've known authors who lose interest in their most popular series and start writing things that cause them to lose fans. Indeed, when I last published a Guardian Angel book in 2014, some of my fans wrote me in a panic and begged me not to give up on the SEALs. I had no intention of doing so, and was actually touched people thought enough to comment.

But every once in awhile I start wandering down the bookstore shelves, looking for another good paranormal series. I don't have the time to read anymore, especially when I'm finishing a book, which seems like all the time now. Maybe some day I'll find a way to blend these two categories into one, without having my fans feel I've abandoned or corrupted my hunky all-American heroes. I mean, have you ever read about a 4th of July unabashedly patriotic vampire or guardian angel lately?

I didn't think so.

Releasing 2-20-16

Not to worry, my next SEAL book, True Blue SEALs: Zak, is coming out February 20th, on preorder now. It's keeping me up at night finishing and editing it. But, rest assured, although these guys love red meat, there's not a fang or feather in sight.

Blurb:

Zak and Amy are destined for each other. After successfully passing the BUD/S training, and helping to stop a San Francisco terrorist attack, Zak goes to the arena of war with the rest of his SEAL Team 3 buddies, to return a changed man. Amy will have to negotiate the pain in her heart as she works to discover the man she loved going off to war is still the man of her dreams, and only if she can convince Zak he still is that man.

Join us for the first annual author reader get-together, Romancing The Vines, at Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Geyserville, California, February 20th from Noon to 5. Reader tickets can be purchased here. 

Sharon Hamilton is a NYT and USA/Today bestselling author most known for her SEAL Brotherhood series. She also writes a Golden Vampire and Guardian Angel series.

A lifelong organic gardener, Sharon lives with her husband in the Wine Country of Northern California, where most of her stories take place. When she’s not writing, she’s getting verra verra dirty in the mud, or wandering Farmer’s Markets looking for new Heirloom varieties of vegetables and flowers.

Sharon Hamilton

Life is one fool thing after another.

Love is two fool things after each other.

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